What is it about Trivia that I despise? The questions whose answers have absolutely no meaning in the sphere of my life? Or the people who answer every question correctly?
Or the other people who THINK they can answer every question correctly and then fight about what really is the right answer. As if it’s sooooo important to know the name of which cricket star in 1938 and a half led his team to a 40 trillion billion to stupid zero victory but then lost the title of “I’m so superduper cool” because he was involved in a secret scandal that wasn’t discovered til (name that year) with the wife of (name that guy who got cheated on by his wife) in the country of (who the flip even cares?)
No – I think I only hate trivia because I never know the right answer.
The part about which lake that I’ve never heard of in which country that I’ve never heard of that was discovered by some weirdo that I’ve never heard of in a year that was so long ago that I don’t really care – I don’t really hate that part. Nope – that part’s ok.
But I do really wish they’d ask more questions about cockroaches. I’d get ALL of those right.
Did you know that there is actually a species of cockroach that people keep as pets? WHAT? It’s called the Giant Burrowing Cockroach.
The Giant Burrowing Cockroach
And people keep these as pets. And I will now keep the memory of the name “Giant Burrowing Cockroach” in my memory until the end of my days and have nightmares about this special burrowing GIANT cockroach that is probably harmless but because it has the name GIANT BURROWING COCKROACH I will imagine that this cockroach is going to burrow into my brain!!! Whew that was a run-on and totally didn’t make 100% sense.
But if only I’d get a question about THAT – then maybe I wouldn’t hate trivia so much.
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Too help with the ickiness of the facts of roaches… I read somewhere that people actually wear live ones as jewelry. I think they paint them in precious metels and attach real gems. They are kind of like a broach and they crawl on them. Gives me the heebies jeebies!!
Who the hell names these things? No imagination whatsoever.
i only hate it because i’m completely pants at remembering trivia.
my memory is too visual – ask me where you put your keys when you came in, or where that photo of me in the pink feather boa circa 1995 was taken? i’m there!
anything to do with sports i’m particularly bad at and i know next to nothing about roaches. but more than i did 5 minutes ago – only i’ll have forgotten it all by the time it turns up in the annual Christmas Trivial Persuit game.
I have a natural aptitude for trivia, because my brain stores utterly useless facts– even when I don’t want it to. In fact, I find my knowledge of some of the pointless stuff I know embarrassing!
I love trivia! However, it is MUCH harder when you live in a country full of facts that you’ve NEVER been exposed to!